Day: April 7, 2015

Top Links

• A Journey Through Open Source: The Trials & Triumphs in Roslyn’s First Year of Open Source (Kasey Uhlenhuth)
• Registration is now open for the 2015 Microsoft MVP Virtual Conference. (Chris Miller)
• Microsoft reintroduces Work & Play bundle of apps and services for $149 (Mary Jo Foley)
• On the importance of OpenSearch (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Directive Architecture, Template URLs, And Linking Order In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Prematurely Blocking Producers in Go (Karl Seguin)
• Moment is quickly becoming my new jQuery! (Remy Sharp)
• 5 Things about ASP.NET 5 that will Blow your Mind! (Cory Fowler)
• WebStorm 10.0.1 Bug Fix Update Available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Change in Windows Azure API – Websites.Services.WebEntities.ConnStringInfo (James Chambers)
• Using AngularJS in your ASP.NET MVC Projects – Part 2 (Mark Kendall)
• Moving WordPress: An Introduction (Rachel McCollin)
• node-es6-transpiled (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Single Page Applications: Your Browser is the OS! (Jeremy Likness)
• ExtJS Store and Cannot read property ‘buffered’ of undefined (Peter Kellner)
• Learning Redis – Part 1: Introduction to Key-Value Databases (Rami Sayar)
• Working With Aurelia (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• WPF Triggers – Property Triggers (Richard Carr)
• Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 Retargeting Extension (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• What’s new in Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6? (DevToolsGuy)
• MSBuildDumper and Using a common intermediate and output directory for your solution and How to have a Project Reference without referencing the actual binary (Kirill Osenkov)
• Visual Studio Time Saver– Fast Select and Edit (Susan Ibach)
• An open engineering birthday for Visual F# (Visual F# Team)
• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Mapping By Attributes (Ricardo Peres)
• Automatic Sorting for Your Collections (Peter Vogel)
• Rx Challenge #5 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Experiments with value types and purely functional data structures and Benchmarking the Set and Map collections (Jon Harrop)
• Avateering with Kinect V2 – Joint Orientations (Pete D.)
• Adding Files to the Windows MRU/Recent Document List (Rick Strahl)
• Free your On-Premise Data with Data Connectors (Sam Basu)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• BDD by example (Dan North)
• Anti-patterns for Handling Failure (Manuel Pais)
• Bridging GitVersion and OctoPack (Rory Primrose)
• The Architecture of a Scalable and Resilient Google Cloud Solution (Abel Avram)
• Article: Enterprise Agility Through Culture (Ben Linders)
• Raffi Krikorian Provides Guidance for “Re-architecting on the Fly” (Daniel Bryant)
• How to gather ‘User Interface’ requirements from stakeholders (DevToolsGuy)
• Given Enough Money, All Bugs Are Shallow (Jeff Atwood)
• My Approach to Testing: Test Public Members (Jeremy Clark)
• 5 Ways to Destroy Your Productivity (John Sonmez)
• The Value of Wisdom in Testing—and How to Earn It (Jon Hagar)
• Which Type of Programmer Are You? (Paul Ballard)
• Easier Than Fizz Buzz – Those Who Cant Code Whine. (Rajiv Popat)
• How to Update a GitHub Forked Repository (Steve Smith)
• Null, empty string, or zero? (Tim Mitchell)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Material Design Theming for Xamarin.Forms Android Apps (James Montemagno)
• Xamarin.Forms Served Hot With Caffeine (Aditya Kumar)
• Enable your messaging app for Android Auto (Joshua Gordon)
• Cordova Azure Active Directory Plugin is now available (Eric Mittelette)
• Supercharging Xamarin Forms with Custom Renderers, Part 1 and Supercharging Xamarin Forms with Custom Renderers, Part 2 (Jeff Prosise)
• Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0 Preview 2 (Jb Evain)
• IoT: Visual Studio and Arduino boards (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• HTML5 Web App Using Intel® XDK (Android on Intel)
• Your First WatchKit Application: User Interaction (Bart Jacobs)
• Native or Hybrid – The Path of Least Resistance (Greg Avola)
• Intel Galileo V2 and You (Greg Duncan)
• Translating your Objective-C project to Swift (Matt Neuburg)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Debugging ASP.NET with Joel Kauffman (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 360: Esther Lee and Fernanda Saraiva on MVP Virtual Conference (David Giard)
• Indie Dev Podcast – Ep 19, Michael Hicks (David Voyles)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 161 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• WinBeta Podcast 9: Spartan, Surface 3 and Halo?! (Zac Bowden)
• Video: Sprint Planning with Visual Studio Online (Esteban Garcia)
• Visual Studio Tip: Fast Select and Edit | Visual Studio Time Savers (Jonathan Rozenblit & Susan Ibach)
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript & TypeScript Development using Visual Studio – Connect(“Live”); // Q&A (Damian Edwards, Mads Kristensen, Ryan J. Salva & Seth Juarez)
• The Windows Developer Show – OT 001 – “PC Builds and Photography” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
• MS Dev Show – Application Insights with Darshan Desai (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Kristen Schaal (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 150: Internet Connecting Things Using Spark With Zach Supalla (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 59 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez & Charles Max Wood)
• Get Up And Code 085: Nutrition and Software Development With Duncan Hunter (Douglas Coleman)
• Ping 241: Cards Against Humanity, Xbox music, buy your own ‘Tron’ lightcycle | Ping! (Greg Duncan, Mark DeFalco & Seth Juarez)
• TWC9: Surface 3, Project Spartan, Succinct Win 10 Dev, WinPhone Crash Dumps and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
• Episode 172: HBase with Maxim Lukiyanov | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai, Mat Velloso & Chris Risner)
• New Video: Lambda Expression Basics (Jeremy Clark)
• SQL Server Radio Show 19 – Thomas LaRock (Matan Yungman)
• Edge Show 142: Storage Quality of Service in Windows Server vNext | Edge (Matt McSpirit)
• Endpoint Zone Episode 7: Office 365 Mobile Device Management | The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson (Simon May)
• GeekWire Radio: Expedia’s big move, Amazon’s new button, and ‘Captivology’ author Ben Parr on the science of attention (Todd Bishop)
• Episode 15.4 | Ying, Yang, and a Bang! (Scott Klein)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin Community Speaker Program (Jayme Singleton)
• Open Source Show and Tell– April 24th in San Francisco (Beth Massi)
• Thank You Bill Gates and Paul Allen (D’Arcy Lussier)
• Bill Gates celebrates Microsoft’s 40th anniversary by looking to the future (John Callaham)
• Aurelia comes to Montreal ! (Vincent Grondin)
• PyCon 2015: April 8-16 (Steve Dower)

 

Database

• Prevent and Log Certain SQL Server Login Attempts (Aaron Bertrand)
• How to change Rendering Extensions in SQL Server Reporting Services (Ghanesh Prasad)
• SQL SERVER – An Observation SET vs SELECT in T-SQL and SQL SERVER – Transaction Log Backup Failing After Rebuilding Database Log File and SQL SERVER – What is Filtered Statistics? (Pinal Dave)
• Blog Post: Exam Prep 70-463: Introduction to Master Data (Colleen Morrow)
• Blog Post: In-Memory OLTP: Part 1 – Introduction (Andrew Pruski)
• Find Corrupted Indexed Views with DBCC CHECKDB (Kendra Little)
• Blog Post: Finding Scalar Aggregate Indexed Views in Your Database (Michael J. Swart)

 

PowerShell

• How to turn your PowerShell scripts into building blocks (Adam Bertram)
• PowerShell: Resizing Azure Virtual Machines (Trevor Sullivan)
• List all cultures by extending the native Get-Culture cmdlet (Emin Atac)

 

Miscellaneous

• Reddit app ReddX will be rewritten to run on Windows 10, Xbox, Phone, and HoloLens (Daniel Rubino)
• Visual Resume Template (Jim Holmes)
• SITE: Microsoft Band & Health UserVoice feedback page (Kurt Shintaku)
• You can now run Android apps on a Mac or PC with Google Chrome (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading April 3, 2015 and Geek Reading April 6, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #162 (Pedro Botelho)
• The Morning Brew #1834 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1499 and Double Shot #1500 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #180 (Frank Boucher)
• Office 365 news roundup (Office 365 Team)
• Microsoft Tuesday – Interesting Links – #08 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Last Week on Channel 9: March 30th – April 5th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• My weekly newsletter is out (David Voyles)
• Daily News Digest 4/7/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (3/30-4/5) (Dara Monasch)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-04-03 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-04-06 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-04-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-04-03 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-04-06 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-04-07 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for April 3rd, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for April 6th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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